SUNNYVALE, Calif. & YOKNEAM, Israel--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier of
high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for data
center servers and storage systems, today announced that it will
work with Microsoft to showcase the Open Networking solution with its
flagship Open Compute Project (OCP) compatible Spectrum™
Ethernet Switches running production-ready networking operating system
based on Microsoft’s Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC)
at 10, 25, 40, 50 and 100Gb/s speed. This combined solution demonstrates
continued momentum behind the Open Ethernet initiative, as highlighted
by interoperability, high availability, operational simplicity, and
end-to-end efficient data movement based on Remote Direct Memory Access
(RDMA) over Converged Ethernet (RoCE).

“We are pleased to see
production deployment of a switch operating system based on SONiC
powering Microsoft infrastructure and we look forward to a broader
footprint of SONiC within Microsoft.”

Mellanox has been an active contributor to OCP since the inception of
the project, with key innovations in host networking solutions
supporting the widest range of OCP server platforms, and open networking
initiatives such as Microsoft’s Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) and
SONiC. Through collaboration with Microsoft and other open networking
equipment vendors, Mellanox has helped to enhance these open cloud
networking software and API/SDK’s, readying them for deployment in
production networks.

In addition, Mellanox has worked with Microsoft to demonstrate the key
role that high-performance networking plays in improving total cloud
infrastructure efficiency. In a demo led by Mellanox and with
participation from Microsoft, faster and higher efficiency data movement
leveraging RoCE is shown to significantly enhance storage access and
applications such as virtual machine Live Migration. The high
throughput, low and consistent latency, and innovative congestion
management implementation of Mellanox Spectrum Ethernet switch have made
it the best choice for supporting highly-efficient RoCE-based
deployments.

“Open Ethernet has been a Mellanox vision that is well-aligned with our
hyperscale customers and partners, and we have invested significant
resources to make it come to fruition,” said Amir Prescher, senior vice
president of business development and general manager of the
interconnect business, Mellanox Technologies. “As a key switch platform
interoperable with SONiC, the Mellanox Spectrum stands out due to its
outstanding performance and predictability, and the higher total
infrastructure efficiency it enables by having the best end-to-end
support of RoCE.”

“Through open collaboration with Mellanox and other contributors to the
SONiC open source project, we’ve helped enhance the scale, stability and
usability of this cloud networking software stack,” said Yousef Khalidi,
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Corp. “We are pleased to see
production deployment of a switch operating system based on SONiC
powering Microsoft infrastructure and we look forward to a broader
footprint of SONiC within Microsoft.”